Quality Assurance Lead

Govan Systems inc; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant d'entreprise

Indemnités de stage/alternance

Job summary

Govan Systems inc is seeking a QA Test Lead to own testing across programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts in the United States.

The role requires hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation (Playwright + TypeScript preferred), strong BRD/FR analysis, traceability, and coverage management. Coordinate with Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, and DevOps to ensure release readiness.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience.
• BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage management.
• Translate requirements into Test Scenarios, Test Cases, data, preconditions, and expected results.
• Ensure traceability from requirements to tests and defects.
• Create and maintain Test Plans and Test Cases in Azure DevOps.
• Establish work-item relationships and use dashboards to report progress.
• Coordinate QA activities across stakeholders and teams.
• Test Design and Execution across multiple testing types.
• Coordinate Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, UAT, and other testing.
• Defect triage and release readiness decisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as QA Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
• Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan.
• Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

Skills

Requirements Analysis

BRD/FR Analysis

Test Scenario Design

Traceability

Azure DevOps

Test Planning

Test Design

Smoke Testing

Functional Testing

API Testing

Integration Testing

System Testing

Regression Testing

UAT

Performance Testing

Database Testing

Data Pipeline Testing

Defect Management

Defect Triage

Release Readiness

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

QA Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.

Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly

Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as QA Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
• Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan.
• Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Requirements Analysis and Coverage
• Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specifications.
• Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements before execution begins.
• Translate requirements into Test Scenarios (TS), Test Cases (TC), test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates.
• Drive complete, measurable traceability from requirements to executed tests and defects.
• Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure.
• Use ADO queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness.
• Test Design and Execution
• Create and review Positive, Negative, Boundary Value, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Table, State Transition, Role/Authorization, Data-Driven, and Risk-Based tests.
• Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing.
• Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible.
• Defect and Release Management
• Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions.
• Ensure defects contain environment/build information, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links.
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and clearly communicate residual quality risk.